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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the editors I would like to introduce
the first issue of "Prague Perspectives," an annual
collection of studies on Russian and East European
history by Czech scholars in English language.
Best wishes,
Martin Beisswenger

For more information see:
http://www.nkp.cz/_en/pages/slov_pp_title.htm
or
www.volny.cz/prague.perspectives


Editorial
Prague Perspectives I: The History of East Central
Europe and Russia edited by Petr Roubal and Vaclav
Veber is published by the Prague Slavonic Library,
an institution with an eighty-year-long tradition
of East European research, as a sequel to the
volume Russia in Czech Historiography, which
presented the state of the art in Czech Russian
studies. Prague Perspectives has broader and
longer-term aims; it represents the first of a
planned series of publications aiming at linking
the regional research of Eastern Europe to the
wider European and world academic community. While
the project of Prague Perspectives is still taking
shape, some of the principal functions of the
series are already clear. First, it is to play an
emancipatory role for regional scholars as it
aspires to offer a "Prague perspective," that is to
say to challenge some of the stereotypical
approaches of "western" social sciences and reduce
the imbalance in the East-West flow of academic
knowledge. Second, it has an integrational role as
it informs the wider academic community about the
state of the art of regional research in Eastern
Europe and facilitates the establishment of new
international contacts. And finally, it has in a
sense a didactic role as it stimulates regional
scholars to formulate their arguments in a way that
allows participation in international academic
discourse.

Table of Content:

Vaclav Veber: In Place of an Introduction: Twenty-
Five Years since the Death of Jan Slavik

Section I: The History of East Central Europe
P
etr Kaleta: Frantisek Rehor - Lover of the Galician
   Ruthenians
Petr Roubal: Suspicious Slavonic Studies: The Case
   of Francis Dvornik's The Slavs in European
   History and Civilisation
Tomas Zahradnicek: Planning the New East Central
   Europe: The Mid-European Democratic Union in the
   United States (1918)
Vaclav Veber: Communism - Totalitarianism -
   Resistance
Jan Pelikan: The Yugoslav State Visit in the Soviet
   Union, June 1956
Jan Adamec: The Winners, the Losers, the Embittered.
   The Disputes inside the Hungarian Workers'
   Party's Leadership during Spring and Summer 1956
Karel Vit: Cooperation among Visegrad Countries in
   Relation to the Integration into the European
   Union
Zora Hlavickova: Czech Historiography on Hungary
Balazs Trencsenyi: Conceptual History and Political
   Languages: On the Central-European Adaptation of
   the Contextualist-Conceptualist Methodologies of
   Intellectual History

Section II: Russian and Soviet History
Katerina Zoufala: The Russian Myth: The 17th-
   Century Russian Reality Seen through Italian
   Eyes
Radomir Vlcek: M. M. Speransky and Russia at the
   Beginning of the 19th Century
Martin Beisswenger and Petr Roubal: Reviewing
   Masaryk - The International Response to T. G.
   Masaryk's The Spirit of Russia
Lukas Babka: The Establishment of the Soviet
   Judicial and Penal System in the Early Days of
   the Bolshevik Dictatorship (1917-1924)
Oksana Sarkisova: Inter-national Loyalties:
   A/Olexander Dovzhenko's Films in the Context of
   the Nationality Policy in Soviet Ukraine in the
   1920's
Vladimir Gonec: "Russia and Europe" in the Concept
   of Hubert Ripka
Jaroslav Vaculik: The State of Historiography of
   Czech Communities Abroad
Emil Voracek: Czech Historiography after November
   1989 on Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian
   History: Difficulties and Political Context
Emil Voracek: Bibliography of the Czech
   historiography on Russia and the Soviet Union
   and on Czechoslovak-Soviet or Czech-Russian
   Relations since 1917

Section III: Russian Emigration in Czechoslovakia
Martin Marek: Commercial Relations between
   Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in the
   1920's: Information and Supporting Organizations
Jaromir Mach: The Russian People's / Free
   University in Prague 1923-1945
Milusa Bubenikova: Al'fred Bem - homo politicus (in
   Russian)
Lubica Harbulova: Ocherk iz zhizni russkoi
   emigratsii v Slovakii v 1939-1945 gg. (in
   Russian)

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